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Friends and Strangers

Four contemporary artists look inside and outside their immediate circles to find emotional connections and build community. This film showcases playful and poignant sculptures, performances, and more. Includes celebrated filmmaker Miranda July.

Friends and Strangers

55m 11s

Four contemporary artists look inside and outside their immediate circles to find emotional connections and build community. This film showcases playful and poignant sculptures, performances, and more. Includes celebrated filmmaker Miranda July.

Previews + Extras

  • Episode 3 Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Episode 3 Preview

    S11 E3 - 30s

    Four contemporary artists look inside and outside their immediate circles to find emotional connections and build community. This film showcases playful and poignant sculptures, performances, and more. Includes celebrated filmmaker Miranda July.

  • Artist Miranda July Performs At a Gas Station: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Artist Miranda July Performs At a Gas Station

    S11 E3 - 1m 30s

    Artist Miranda July walks through a busy gas station while uncoiling a roll of white ribbon, asking strangers to hold onto a part of it but feel free to let go whenever they need to. The ribbon tangles and wraps around the entire gas station. In the voiceover, July discusses how taking risks is her comfort zone and not being afraid to do so gives her a superpower to work freely.

  • Christine Sun Kim Explains Her Site-Responsive Project: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Christine Sun Kim Explains Her Site-Responsive Project

    S11 E3 - 1m 14s

    As a muralist paints artist Christine Sun Kim’s site-responsive project at the Queens Museum, “Time Owes Me Rest Again,” Kim explains the ideas behind the piece. She used echoing motion lines to represent the five words in the title in American Sign Language, conveying the unease and fatigue many felt during the COVID-19 pandemic and the persisting inequity between Deaf and hearing communities.

  • "Future Ancestral Technologies": asset-mezzanine-16x9

    "Future Ancestral Technologies"

    S11 E3 - 1m 17s

    Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger started a series of works called “Future Ancestral Technologies,” rejecting the romantic historical narrative of native people that their culture is ancient and primitive. Through science fiction and speculative fiction presented with sculptures, videos, regalia, and performance, Luger imagines how our culture shifts in the future and what it will mean to be indigenous.

  • The Origin Story of the Art Gallery "Just Above Midtown": asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Origin Story of the Art Gallery "Just Above Midtown"

    S11 E3 - 1m 17s

    Illustrated with archival images from the 70s and 80s, Linda Goode Bryant tells the story of how she realized artists of color were not given the opportunities to exhibit their work at the time and decided to take the initiative to establish the art gallery, Just Above Midtown, which fostered a vibrant artists community and gave artists the space to exchange ideas and experiment with new work.

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